Paleo Pumpkin Chili

Pumpkin, the featured ingredient in this Paleo Pumpkin Chili creates a super smooth texture. by Marla Sarris, updated February 3, 2015Posted on November 19, 2012

Marla Sarris is the founder of Paleo Porn, co-author of Pigskin Paleo, project manager at SPYR and Executive Producer of Minimalism. After tirelessly dedicating six years to teaching Mathematics at one of the top High Schools in the nation, she left her all-consuming career in pursuit of a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. She continues to indulge her passion for teaching through Paleo Porn.

I’ve been batch cooking lately. (I prefer to call them cooking marathons.) I’ve spent around 8-9 hours one to two days a week cooking a bunch of food and a few weeks back I made this Paleo Pumpkin Chili. The addition of pumpkin really smoothed out the flavor and Jeff really loved it. By request, this one’s for Melissa. :)

I made such a huge batch of pumpkin puree on Halloween and since then I’ve been playing around with pumpkin recipes, using a little bit here and there.

While editing photos the other day I decided to play around with an iced pumpkin frappuccino to try to keep myself awake and that totally backfired! I got so tired from the sugar crash that I had to take a nap and then jump back in again a few hours later.

A few weeks ago I woke up extremely early on a Sunday morning for absolutely no reason. The Bears game started at noon that day and I realized I had plenty of time to prepare a meal before then. I wound up experimenting with the sweet potatoes I had waiting to be cooked and by the time the game started I had made this pumpkin chili along with sweet potato salad, sweet potato swirls and tuna salad. Jeff woke up right before the start of the game and loved that I had prepared a spread of food. Having the large amount of chili and two salads readily available for a quick lunch, side or dinner really came in handy with how busy that week was.

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Marla Sarris is the founder of Paleo Porn, co-author of Pigskin Paleo, project manager at SPYR and Executive Producer of Minimalism. After tirelessly dedicating six years to teaching Mathematics at one of the top High Schools in the nation, she left her all-consuming career in pursuit of a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. She continues to indulge her passion for teaching through Paleo Porn.

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